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Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum is Expanding

By Paul Crowe

Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum is expanding
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum is expanding

If the already spectacular Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum wasn’t enough, George Barber has decided it needs something more and is completing plans for a 100,000 square foot expansion to be built inside the track. It will be connected to the existing 140,000 square foot museum by an enclosed bridge over the track where you’ll be able to observe motorcycles and cars racing underneath.

The existing museum holds about half of the Barber collection and the new addition will allow a great deal more to be available for public view. Groundbreaking will take place this year.

If this wasn’t already on your list of must see attractions, the addition will make it pretty much mandatory.

Thanks for the tip, Walter.

Link: Barber Museum Expansion
Link: Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum

Posted on January 8, 2012 Filed Under: Vintage Motorcycles


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Comments

  1. dannyb278 says

    January 8, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    If there was ever a reason for my to go to Alabama, this is it. Time to make a pilgrimage i think

    • Dr Robert Harms says

      January 9, 2012 at 8:43 pm

      Be sure to carry your papers

      • Eric Cherry says

        January 9, 2012 at 9:57 pm

        As a native of Alabama, that made my day. Yes, always travel with your birth certificate in Alabama.

        • zipidachimp says

          January 9, 2012 at 10:52 pm

          is this an inside joke?
          I had to take my passport! from canada!

          • Eric Cherry says

            January 10, 2012 at 10:30 pm

            Alabama has a few very notable laws to out illegal immigrants that got enacted last year.

  2. charlie says

    January 8, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    This is a truly amazing place (even before the addition), and every motorcyclist owes it to themselves to make the pilgrimmage!

  3. Eric Cherry says

    January 8, 2012 at 4:58 pm

    http://gallery.me.com/ericcherry#100246&bgcolor=black&view=grid

    I live about 2 hours from here and I go a few times a year, such an awesome place and I have a tons of photos from there. If you plan to visit Barber’s, get there first thing in the morning because you will spend all day looking at bikes. It takes 6+ hours to see it all and still wish you had more time.

    • akaaccount says

      January 9, 2012 at 11:43 am

      Wow. There goes my lunch break. Thanks.

  4. Rich says

    January 8, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    Twice I have visited this museum and plan to go back for at least a third. I, for one, am glad to see the expansion as the collection’s Britten was not on display either time I visited. It is the grandest facility I have visited for presenting any kind of vehicles. It makes Harrah’s look like an amateur threw some stuff together. If you are a motorcycle enthusiast, this *has* to be on your list.

  5. Bigshankhank says

    January 8, 2012 at 7:46 pm

    Huzzah, I would love to see some of what barbers had behind the curtain. I went there a few years back when I was working in Birmingham, it was the Honda AMA weekend if I recall. Awesome time.

  6. zipidachimp says

    January 9, 2012 at 4:05 am

    attended last october’s vintage festival, spent half my time here.
    I think this place houses the free world’s existing supply of yam TD/TR racers in all sizes, probably the most G50s you’ll ever see in one place, and the largest collection of the most obscure road racers you can think of, linto etc. the range of bikes is simply breathtaking, 1890s onwards.
    3 cheers for the expansion, gotta go back. a must see!

  7. Decline says

    January 9, 2012 at 9:44 am

    Holy crap, it was already like being instantly overloaded….now there will be glorious more!

  8. Tim says

    January 9, 2012 at 10:19 pm

    If you’re visiting, what do you do with your spouses? My significant other would spend about an hour humouring me looking at bikes then would be bored. I could (and will) happily spend a day or more there. So, what can she do? Where can she go?

    • Eric Cherry says

      January 17, 2012 at 12:20 am

      There’s a great deal of shopping available in Birmingham (adjacent to Leeds). Check out Birmingham’s chamber of commerce’s website, they have plenty of leads to keeping the ladies entertained. Which is a good idea, nothing ruins 6+ hours of man-fun than a bored wife hours away from home.

  9. Chris R says

    January 10, 2012 at 6:19 pm

    Your Spouse can go 2 hours up I-65 to the NASA Space Museum in Huntsville, or stop an hour north to Hartselle to Antique shop, or for people of the Catholic faith there is EWTN campus only 15 minutes away. That is just a very small non-biker activities. Alabama has so many sites that should not be missed in this great state. No I don’t work for C of C of Alabama, in fact I am not even a resident, Yet!

  10. JSH says

    January 10, 2012 at 10:36 pm

    There is a new outlet mall in Leeds. It is at the same exit as the Barber Museum on the other side of the highway.

  11. craigj says

    January 12, 2012 at 1:22 pm

    A new excuse to go back to a great motorcycle destination! Of course the way I have to get there includes the Dragon and the BRP amongst other great roads …

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